A Query For Kaushik Basu

Policy draft backs new vaccines

Health experts say new vaccines not essential enough to be in the national programme

Veerappa Moily to 'revisit' report on Western Ghats

The decision may be a tactic to buy time before 2014 Lok Sabha elections

US, China count their poor afresh. India looks away

India’s carbon roadmap

BASIC distinct

Developing countries isolate Copenhagen Accord

New measure for urban poverty

A standard and simple exclusion method has been evolved to determine BPL families

BPL's dividing line

Government undecided on criteria to identify families below poverty line

Harmful combo drugs flood market

Irrational drug combos flood market; regulator does little to remove them

What states stand to gain from food security law

An estimate of the population that will benefit from the food programme

India takes cue from China; to mine rare-earths

Will add two research vessels for the mining 

Thermal power generation set to expand six times

What it means

Curing the ills of pharma FDI

Foreign investment in existing pharma companies will be allowed with riders

Importing Disaster

Include public, fight Naxalites

Planning Commission wants to improve Integrated Action Plan

What is causing food inflation

It is protein products, not wheat and rice that are pushing food price index

Maharashtra to divert employment guarantee fund

Correcting distortions

Perhaps yes, minister

New poverty estimate soon

But will it reflect true level of poverty in the country?

Only plans, no integration

JNNURM fares well

News 360-Brief

CAG finds irregularities in Odisha port projects

Audit reveals loss of Rs 160 crore for minor ports in PPP mode

Planning Commission push to health care privatisation

Draft 12th Five Year Plan proposes contracting-in and PPP in public health services